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ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
edited May 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
The word from the higher ups at my job is that we're going to have an end user forum soon and they've tasked me with selecting the software we're going to use and they narrowed it down to VBulletin and PHPbb. My experience with both packages is just on the end user sides and I'm wondering if there are any pros or cons for either I should be aware of on the backside.

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  • powersspowerss Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    PHPbb has security flaws. Go with vbulletin.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    We switched from phpBB to vBulletin. From what I recall we had problems with phpBB being buggy, having a lot of security issues, and being deadly slow. It is however, free. We were also using phpBB 2, and 3 has been released since. vBulletin is not free. It does however have official support available, and seems to be far less buggy.

    It's basically like this: If your boss is willing to pay for it, get vBulletin and all of the really difficult problems that would otherwise keep you up until 3 AM five nights a week working on them will be someone else's problem. If you go with phpBB, you've got a product with a certain history and no one you can really turn to and say "I need this to be not fucked".

    Ramius or alpha might have further insight, but I wouldn't pester them overly about it. vBulletin also isn't all that expensive if you've got a business that turns profit in the first place.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    vBulletin. phpBB is not even worth consideration anymore, until 3 has been out for a long time. Until then, both 2 and 3 have gigantic security holes, and 2 can be especially attacked by simply embedding certain IMG urls in posts and script kiddies.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    PHPBB does have a fuckton of features though, substantially more than 2 and if I recall it even has some things that vBulletin does not (the PHPBB site has a full feature breakdown and comparison).

    Yes it will have security holes.

    The thing I like most about PHPBB is that it can run on MSSQL which I don't think vBulletin does... that's totally a project specific thing though. I just happen to prefer MSSQL.

    If you keep the forum on its own DB though then you can cut down on your security risks somewhat.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Pheezer wrote: »
    We switched from phpBB to vBulletin. From what I recall we had problems with phpBB being buggy, having a lot of security issues, and being deadly slow. It is however, free. We were also using phpBB 2, and 3 has been released since. vBulletin is not free. It does however have official support available, and seems to be far less buggy.

    It's basically like this: If your boss is willing to pay for it, get vBulletin and all of the really difficult problems that would otherwise keep you up until 3 AM five nights a week working on them will be someone else's problem. If you go with phpBB, you've got a product with a certain history and no one you can really turn to and say "I need this to be not fucked".

    Ramius or alpha might have further insight, but I wouldn't pester them overly about it. vBulletin also isn't all that expensive if you've got a business that turns profit in the first place.

    I figured those two would be pretty busy and my understanding is both options are in pretty broad use. It should be a fairly low traffic forum but it's sounding like vBulletin will be my recommendation.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited May 2008
    vbulletin all the way

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    Seriously, with vBulletin the only deterrent to coming here is reading all of your posts. With phpBB there were often technical roadblocks keeping me from visiting on top of that.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    That and you could make administrators unwillingly delete their forums by just looking at your posts

    although the most I ever did on a test forum was make people log themselves out

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited May 2008
    the only thing that compares to vbulletin is IPB, and that costs a bundle.

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Okay, I believe this can be locked and closed.

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